Recruiting Athletes in Philippine Track and Field ? Pinoy Athletics

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There are three ways I can think of which come to mind for recruiting talented Track and Field athletes into the Philippines.

1) Are grassroots programs e.g. finds at the Palarong Pambansa and other such meets

2) Persuade athletes from other sports to take up Track and Field e.g. we have alot of talented triathletes who could excel at 10k etc.. (more on this later)

3) We have about 11 million Filipinos working overseas, and a greater number of Filipino parentage or mixed parentage. Alot of these athletes have access to better sporting facilities, better organized meets with more competition depth and in some cases better coaching knowledge. Over the next few weeks-months Pinoyathletics will present these three cases in various articles. We have already shown examples and articles of these in the past especially of option 1 and option 3.

Option 1, we have already covered i think 3 Filipinas in the Final of Vietnam ?is an excellent example of are grassroots programs with three athletes who came through the Palarong Pambansa system initially maybe not being the best at that time but later developing there skills.

Option 2,? We are yet to eplore option 2. The idea of Option 2 dawned to me after seeing Alistair Brownlee run 29m07 for the 10k, it got me thinking how the best Triathletes, road runners, duathletes?and endurance sport?type athletes?in the country would fare over the 10k. I welcome any comments on this discussion point.

Option 3, the term Fil-Heritage has been coined as it is more appropriate for athletes of Filipino?mixed parentage?or who are living overseas, or those of Filipino origin who now moved overseas. We are avoiding the use of terms Filam (which stereotypes the limited capacity thinking that all Filipino?s overseas live in the states, when the Filipino community overseas is alot more global than that. We also avoid the use of the term Fil-Foreigner (as this is trying to class athletes of Filipino origin as not really part of the Philippines). Already we have provided a good article on?two twin female sprinters who have already made the IAAF qualifying criteria for the World Youth Championships and we are awaiting the response of PATAFA in regards to documentation they need to provide as a letter was sent last week.

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